Saint Augustine, The City of God Book XVI, Chapter 2
(Ham is cursed through Canaan, associating Ham's lineage with the city of the wicked, or heretics, Implying reprobation as separation from God's favor.) newadvent.org/fathers/120116…
Ibid, Chapter 3
(Reiterates the curse on Canaan as extending to Ham's descendants, counting 31 descendants and linking them to nations under divine judgment or subjugation.)
Alcuin of York (796–804), Questions and Answers on Genesis (Ascribes unchastity and moral inferiority to Ham's descendants due to the curse, implying inherited reprobation leading to giants from mixed unions, Which are proud, rude, and strong but sinful.) ia800205.us.archive.org/3/items/questi…
Saint Ephrem the Syrian, Commentary to Genesis and Exodus
There are other references one can find commented on in David M. Goldberg's "The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"
Slavery is not considered a sin by the Saints, To name a few St. Augustine in The City of God, Book XIX, Chapter 15 where he even states Ham was branded a slave:
Saint John Chrysostom in his Homily 22 on Ephesians:
Saint John Chrysostom in his Homily 19 on First Corinthians
Saint Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit (Ch. 20)
Saint Peter of Alexandria, Canonical Epistle, Canons 6-7
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Nazi Support for Orthodox Church Institutions During World War II: 🧵
During the Second World War, the Bulgarians, who were allies of the Germans, Liberated Macedonia and Thrace. The region and the church property passed to the Bulgarian state.
The the monks of Mount Athos, fearing that this would also happen to them, sent a letter to Hitler asking him to put Mount Athos under his protection. It was written at the suggestion of a German major. Hitler accepted their request and Mount Athos was under German protection.
The Roman law C. Th. 3.14.1 (Valentinian I, 370/373 CE) explicitly forbade any marriage between Roman provincials and “barbarians” or gentiles, punishing violations by death
Its wording: “none of the provincials…may have a marriage with a barbarian wife, nor any provincial woman with a gentile” - uses ethnic terms, not religious ones
Did the 1872 Constantinople Synod condemn "Racism" and "Racialism"? 🧵
The Synod states:
“We proclaim anathematized and condemn phyletism, that is racial distinctions and nationalistic strife, envy and schism in the Church of Christ…”
In its report it defined ethnophyletism as “the formation, in the same place, of separate national (ἰδίων φυλετικῶν) Churches, accepting all those of the same race but excluding those of other races, and administered only by [bishops] of the same race”